Fire Genasi who built steam-driven airships to explore the world — and, grounded, became masters of portals.
Founded: c. year 100 (Second Age), by Svarog, in Cinderforge
Story
Once the Fire Genasi discovered engineering and steam power, Svarog founded the Cinderwing Cartel in Cinderforge: Fire Genasi who build steam-driven airships and set out to explore the world. In the same years he commanded them to build a vast trade network across the continent — and to see off any competition.
Around year 200, trading far and wide, they reached the island amid the ice floes between Jungle Island and the mainland, where after a mutiny on an airship a splinter renounced fire and became the Frost Genasi, on bad terms with the Cartel’s centre. Later in those same years Sylvanus’s Skybreak closed the sky, and nothing may fly.
Late in Age II, c. year 500, Svarog sent the grounded Cartel a prophecy: one of the two lost crystals governs portals, and they were to learn everything of portals, other dimensions and time. Then he made them masters of it: they found that shards of the First Meteor — the one that made World’s Breach — make portal magic far stronger nearby; far from the shards it is almost impossible.
Now
Grounded, chasing portals and meteor shards. They know the shards’ secret.
Connections
- Portals — their mastery
- First Meteor · World’s Breach — source of the shards
- Great Crystals — the lost crystal of portals
- Frost Genasi — their mutinous splinter
- Skybreak — why their airships are grounded
- Mages’ Guild — also buying meteor fragments
Open: [?] where the Cartel’s shards are.